Illiteracy is common.

Hey, it feels to be true to yourself. Let it all out Peter. Tell us what you truly believe.

You don't need to cloak it with with silly ideas like your sovereign island any longer; the PC days are over.

This is extra funny coming from the guy who spent the past decade+ denigrating education and who sponsored the current VP, who marketed as a "hillbilly," and the president who is, visibly to all of us, a stable genius.

Let’s do the exact same thing we just did when we lost. Surely that’s going to work.

Abundance is the new buzzword after the campaign of “brat” and “joy”.

I hope people will see through this crap and demand better. This website isn’t leaving a good impression with the credulity displayed in the comments. Luckily it’s far from the mainstream.

Hell, you might end up in a Salvadoran prison providing forced labor.

What's the source?

And that is possibly the aim. When the protests turn into violence or sabotage, the state uses that to justify its own violent repression.

so you saying if there are violence or sabotage, you let these people do it??? how can that be better

They're suggesting that the point of an authority using this weapon on a mass of people may be to cause those people to become violent so that the authority can use the subsequent fear to justify further abuses.

Which I think is likely, but also a bad decision. Generally speaking, the job of a legitimate government is to make violent protest unnecessary. So depending on the situation, the best action may indeed be to back down and rethink how things got there in the first place, rather than continuing to provoke more violence. Continuing to escalate is not a sustainable strategy for anyone that intends to maintain power for long, as the numbers are not generally on their side.

Yeah but the problem is with mass movement people like this, there are good chance people that can take advantage of these protest (looting,rob etc)

the point of these weapon is not "defeat" but mostly to crowd control right because you cant rule out if there is no crime even in peaceful protest, both things can be true at the same time

also if such weapon is not permanently injure or harm people, I can see why this weapon is in need like pepper spray

That's very charitable to those in power. Believe me when I tell you most don't give two hoots about looting and vandalism.

You don't break up a gathering because there's the possibility of crimes occurring unless you live in an authoritarian society.

"most don't give two hoots about looting and vandalism."

of course who give a shit is the owner, its all sunshine until it happen on your neighbourhood

I think it's pretty clear the owners of the corner store are not deploying those tactics for they are not the state.

Thank you for engaging in good faith.

That's exactly it. Thank you.

In this case, the author is a well-known bad-faith actor who twists and contorts reality in order to sell her political agenda.

Just any anything from this publication nowadays fits that mold. See David's Frum involvement. That's one of the people who sold the Iraq WMD fraud in the Bush administration.

Hamas agreed to this deal months ago. Give Trump credit for applying pressure to the party that actually rejected it.

That's not true. Hamas finally agreed to let Israel monitor the Philadelphi corridor and to keep a buffer zone.

Hamas also finally released an actual list with names of who they would release.

Those were the changes the made the deal. Israel did not change their position.

If you think you are right, then tell me: What did Hamas want that they didn't get before, than now because of Trump Israel agreed to? There's not a single thing, but I'll let you have a chance to find something.

Trump wanted the war to end, and I'm sure Netanyahu was doing his Netanyahu thing.

Posting that video was Trump's way of telling Netanyahu that he will burn him by turning him into public enemy #1 with his base. That's how he got him to agree.

This makes no sense.

Netanyahu destroyed his reputation within the Democratic base and it did not concern him in the slightest. Because Israel stopped truly needing the approval of the US a long time ago.

And so the idea that he is suddenly worried about what the Trump base thinks has no basis in fact. Especially when the Trump base is not 1-1 with the Republican base i.e. the majority of the Congress still supports Israel.

Also shows that Israeli electorate/Jewish diaspora now likely a distinct/separate entity from US Jewish population...drifting apart since at least 2008 if not earlier.

Israeli massively support Trump over Harris

https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-shows-israelis-massively-...

It's irrelevant.

Netanyahu isn't letting domestic opinion polls concern him let alone the Trump base.

Utterly wrong. Netanyahu’s base loves Trump. They believe Dems are out to get them and would like to cut aid to Israel. Netanyahu absolutely can not get on trumps bad side because his base would eviscerate him.